Over the last few months, we’ve had some fun spotting major companies that use Joomla. Here’s another … earlier this year India’s Tata Motors made a huge splash by unveiling their Nano car. It’s designed to cost just $2500 and bring car ownership within reach of more Indian families. The car’s website is built in Joomla. Hat tip to Ivo Apostolov from Joomfish.
I’m catching a flight in a couple of hours but had so many emails about this that I’ll try to sum up my thoughts: Google made a major change overnight, allowing people to vote and comment on listings. You can vote websites up or down using the arrow buttons and remove a site completely using the X button. The project is called “SearchWiki” and is another stage in their attempt to personalize search results. So if I searched for “Mambo, I’d get the software, if a dancer did the same search they’d get the dance and if the surfer did…
This is a guest blog post by Steve Moseley of Hannisdal Express. He previously blogged here on alledia.com, discussing his new site www.simliteraturemedia.org. That project led him to discover a problem with Search Engine Friendly URLs and IE6. This post is dedicated to Andy from Rockettheme.
This is a guest blog post by Steve Moseley of Hannisdal Express. Steve is a web developer from Ohio and originally posted a link to a site he helped to develop on the SEO Club forum. I was so impressed that I asked him to blog about it. The website is SimLiteratureMedia.org.
We’re selling JoomlaYellowPages.com. What is it? The biggest directory of Joomla developers. It has been online since August 2006 and has over 300 developers are listed. Rankings? They’re good. They’d better be as we’re an SEO company! The site is #1 and #2 on Google for "joomla companies, #2 for "joomla designers", #3 for "joomla developers". It also ranks very well for geo phrases such as "continent joomla", "country joomla" and "state/province joomla". Revenue? Subscriptions, Adsense and webdesign clients contacting us via the site. Software? Joomla 1.0, Mosets Tree for the directory, MamboCharge for the subscriptions. Reason for selling? It…
As many of you may know, Yannick is the developer of sh404SEF perhaps the most advanced SEO extension available to Joomla. This weekend he went to Joomla! Day Switzerland and gave a very detailed presentation about sh404SEF. He talked about the project’s history, showed how to use it, explained some little used features and unvieled some future plans.
This is a guest blog post by by John Coonen from the CMS Association. Silver Lining: Will Recession Sober People Up to the Value of Open Source? Sure, it’s a morbid thought – nobody wants a recession – but it’s a reality.? Many in the Open Source CMS world know that while Santa will surely be on a slim-fast diet when it comes to gift-giving this holiday season, the forecast for work in the Open Source CMS arena stands a chance of (dare one say) “glad tidings” in the coming months – or at least maintaining its market share.
Here’s a quick rundown of some ways in which Joomla and third-party developers are trying to make managing your Joomla site much easier: Automatic Updates for the Joomla 1.5 Core Joomla Magic Updater installs as a component and then allows you to update to the latest Joomla version with a simple button click. The files are taken directly from joomla.org. People seem to love it. In less than a month on the Joomla Extensions Directory its one of the top rated extensions with over 25 rave reviews.
… or "why Open Source is like WalMart": "The nation has two kinds of retailers these days: those bracing for a grim holiday season, and Wal-Mart … We know that Mom’s not going to cancel Christmas. We’re committed to cutting the cost of Christmas. It’s what we do.”" (NYTimes) I really think we’re lucky to be in the Open Source world right now. We can be the Walmart of the technology sector. As people cut back, they’re not cancelling web projects but they are looking for quality at much lower prices. Whether you’re building a business on an OS platform…
Back in June we made a list of all the major companies that we could find with Joomla websites. We found firms such as Avis, Danone, Mistubishi, Olympus, Porsche, Sprint, Toshiba, Vodafone and Yamaha. Here’s one thats even bigger: Cable and Wireless’s main corporate site, CW.com. Its a very simple, professional Joomla 1.5 with only XMap as a visible extension. CW goes back to the 1860s and was the first company to break British Telecom’s phone monopoly in the U.K. Its the main phone provider in many former British colonies and its a member of the FTSE 100 Index, making…